Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Cuba and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1968 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968 at the first Can practice in a loft in Cologne.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing Neil Young & Crazy Horse to the disco kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by Pole. All the underground hits.
All Faraquet tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Technova record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Martian record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Happenings,
World's Most,
Bizarre Inc.,
Scratch Acid,
Easy Going,
Grandmaster Flash,
Kool Moe Dee,
Eddi Front,
Roy Ayers,
Eric Dolphy,
Lower 48,
Scan 7,
The Music Machine,
Delon & Dalcan,
Tubeway Army,
Glenn Branca,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Slackers,
Vainqueur,
Bob Dylan,
Sonic Youth,
Prince Buster,
The Blackbyrds,
Gang of Four,
The Monochrome Set,
Pere Ubu,
8 Eyed Spy,
The Move,
Ludus,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Nick Fraelich,
Khruangbin,
These Immortal Souls,
The Evens,
Heaven 17,
Blancmange,
Fluxion,
Letta Mbulu,
Bill Near,
The Beau Brummels,
Marmalade,
Reagan Youth,
Duran Duran,
T.S.O.L.,
Throbbing Gristle,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Victims,
Dawn Penn,
Sixth Finger,
The Gladiators,
Banda Bassotti,
Blake Baxter,
Hardrive,
R.M.O.,
The Dead C,
Rhythm & Sound,
The Divine Comedy,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Crooked Eye,
Main Source,
The Remains,
Slick Rick,
The Toasters, The Toasters, The Toasters, The Toasters.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.